/PanARMENIAN. Net/ Amnesty International posted a letter on its website that stated it was dismayed at the news that “yet another case has been opened against journalist Hrant Dink on charges of ‘denigrating Turkishness’ under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.” “The organization considers that this prosecution is part of an emerging pattern of harassment against the journalist exercising his right to freedom of _expression,” the organization said in its letter, entitled “Turkey: Journalist targeted yet again.” Hrant Dink was given a six-month suspended prison sentence in October 2005 on charges of “denigrating Turkishness,” which was upheld by the Court of Appeal in July 2006, and if found guilty on the same charge, Dink would go to prison, said the organization in its letter, and further added that in that case Dink would be considered as a prisoner of conscience.
Amnesty International message also refers lately ceased case regarding another writer, novelist Elif Shafak, on charges under Article 301 relating to statements made by characters in her novel The Bastard of Istanbul,” the Zaman reports.
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